The Cool Down
August 25, 2025
Additionally, the Economic Policy Institute says that immigration does not adversely impact the wages earned by native born U.S. workers on a larger, national scale. It may reduce wages for newly arrived immigrants and native-born low-education workers, however. It also does not decrease the number of jobs available to workers born in the U.S.9
Investopedia
August 25, 2025
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Business Insider that while the trend isn’t new– young men have historically had a higher unemployment rate than young women– the gap is widening.
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
August 25, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute says the average annual cost of infant care in Indiana is $14,471—that’s $1,206 per month. In Indiana, infant care costs 11.7% more than average rent.
WISH-TV
August 25, 2025
A larger percentage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was made permanent in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act go to the wealthiest Americans, according to analyses by the Tax Policy Center, Economic Policy Institute, and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Idaho Capital Sun
August 25, 2025
Ironically, the setting underscores economic divides. Teton County, which includes Jackson Hole, is the most unequal county in the entire U.S., according to the Economic Policy Institute. There, the top 1 percent earn more than 142 times the income of the remaining 99 percent.
Observer
August 25, 2025
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not changed since 2009 and isn’t likely to change again anytime soon. However, a dozen states automatically hike the wage each year to account for inflation, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
GO Banking Rates
August 25, 2025
A fresh Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis examines some elevated risks for the race with the largest Black populations in 10 metro areas across America. It comes as Trump’s regime partially retreated from his latest anti-equity action to federally oust the Metropolitan Police Department in the nation’s capital.
Black Enterprise
August 25, 2025
Also, whenever the economy is heading in or out of recession, says Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist of the Labor Department and now president of the Economic Policy Institute, the jobs numbers will be less stable and subject to more frequent revision.
The American Prospect
August 25, 2025
What’s happening at the national level does trickle down said Heidi Shierholz, at the Economic Policy Institute.
“If we enter a recession, unemployment really across the board rises,” Shierholz said. “When we enter a recovery, unemployment across the board tends to fall.”
So even though state unemployment rates might be very different — they tend to move in tandem.
“If the overall unemployment rate in the United States continues to rise as it has been, there will still be differences in unemployment rate levels from state to state,” Shierholz said.
But she said unemployment will rise virtually everywhere.
Marketplace
August 25, 2025